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Removing rocks and other debris in a very large urban privy (c. 1855). Privy digging is the process of locating and investigating the contents of defunct outhouse vaults. The purpose of privy digging is the salvage of antique bottles and everyday household artifacts from the past.
A sod farm structure in Iceland Saskatchewan sod house, circa 1900 Unusually well appointed interior of a sod house, North Dakota, 1937. The sod house or soddy [1] was a common alternative to the log cabin during frontier settlement of the Great Plains of Canada and the United States in the 1800s and early 1900s. [2]
These houses may simply be called plank houses. Some building historians prefer the term plank-on-frame. Plank-frame houses are known from the 17th century with concentrations in the Massachusetts Bay Colony and Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. The carpentry consists of a timber frame with vertical planks extending from sill ...
Found in Europe and often belonging to the later Bronze Age or Iron Age. [11] Often marked on Ordnance Survey maps in the UK. [12] Ridge and furrows are sets of parallel depressions and ridges in the ground formed primarily through historic farming techniques. [13] Mottes are mound structures made of earth and stone that once held castles.
Pages in category "Buildings and structures completed in 1800" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. C.
The house is located in the Old West End National Historic District, where visitors can find a number of Victorian and Edwardian homes. The home is currently listed for $46,000. Talley House in ...
A plantation house is the main house of a plantation, often a substantial farmhouse, which often serves as a symbol for the plantation as a whole. Plantation houses in the Southern United States and in other areas are known as quite grand and expensive architectural works today, though most were more utilitarian, working farmhouses.
Cobblestone architecture refers to the use of cobblestones embedded in mortar as method for erecting walls on houses and commercial buildings. It was frequently used in the northeastern United States and upper Midwest in the early 19th century; the greatest concentration of surviving cobblestone buildings is in New York State, generally near ...